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- 531: Walt Disney
- ... pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do." At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school. In 1923, at the age of twenty two ...
- 532: Martin Luther
- ... be overthrown. Luther placed emphasis on personal Bible study. He was the first to bring personal Bible study to the life of the "common people". Because Luther had found the true way of salvation by studying the Bible, he wanted all the people to have the same opportunity. However, the Bible was not written in German, thus the people had to rely on what the Catholic Church thought about its content ...
- 533: Confucius in the Chinese History
- ... a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old political system but he retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying in his later life. As his students praised his talent for brilliant teaching and recorded them, we can read his words from the Analects. Confucius died at 72. His birthday September 24th is celebrated in ...
- 534: Mohandas K. Gandhi: Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live
- ... were put in prison. Gandhi began fasting when negotiations fell through. The government knew they had to change the constitution. They knew that if Gandhi died, they would have a revolution on their hands. In studying Mohandas Gandhi, I have developed a profound sense of respect and great admiration for this man. It is totally beyond belief how this meek, little man was able to stand up for what he believed ...
- 535: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... Soon after being commissioned his father died, and he was forced to provide for his family. Napoleon spent the next seven years reading the works of the philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French ...
- 536: Georg Fredrich Handel
- ... composition was in the year 1700. This first composition is known as the Trio Sonato in G minor, Op. 2 No. 2. During February of 1702, Handel enrolled at the University of Halle. Handel, while studying law, was appointed the organist at the Halle Cathedral. Handel met Johann Mattheson in Hamburg on July 9, 1703. It was at this time that Handel joined the opera orchestra as first a violinist and ...
- 537: The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
- ... the son of a civil engineer. He spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. He wanted to be an architect so he enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. He stared studying there in 1919. But he did not do well in school and got very bad grades. However he was very good at graphic arts and he decided to shift from architecture to drawing and printmaking ...
- 538: Martha Graham
- ... a well-known physician who treated mental disorders. After living in Pennsylvania for 12 years, she and her family moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1908 (Harmon et al. 182). This was where she started studying modern dance in her earlier years. Martha's father played a big role in her life. Dr. Graham inspired his daughter to search for the meaning behind people's actions. As she sat in her ...
- 539: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... to a man who's not there?'" - C. S. Lewis: A Biography Clive Staples Lewis was born, in 1898, in Belfast. C. S. Lewis was educated at various schools in England. In 1914, Lewis began studying Latin, Greek, French, German and Italian under the private tuition of W. T. Kirkpatrick. He then moved to Oxford where his studies were interrupted by World War I (1917). Two years later he was back ...
- 540: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... Soon after being commissioned his father died, and he was forced to provide for his family. Napoleon spent the next seven years reading the works of the philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French ...
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